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  • #1
    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

  • #2
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.”
    Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

  • #3
    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    Alexander Pope

  • #4
    Nelson Mandela
    “It always seems impossible until it's done.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #5
    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #6
    Emily Dickinson
    “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #7
    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #9
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #10
    Criss Jami
    “To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
    Criss Jami

  • #11
    Lao Tzu
    “Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #12
    Lao Tzu
    “Simplicity, patience, compassion.
    These three are your greatest treasures.
    Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
    Patient with both friends and enemies,
    you accord with the way things are.
    Compassionate toward yourself,
    you reconcile all beings in the world.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #13
    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #14
    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #19
    Gloria Steinem
    “We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. ”
    Gloria Steinem, Herstory : Women Who Changed The World

  • #20
    Gloria Steinem
    “Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”
    Gloria Steinem

  • #21
    Gloria Steinem
    “Each others' lives are our best textbooks.”
    Gloria Steinem

  • #22
    Gloria Steinem
    “Always ask the turtle.”
    Gloria Steinem

  • #23
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #24
    C.S. Lewis
    “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
    Mark Twain

  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
    Mark Twain

  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
    Mark Twain

  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
    Mark Twain

  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
    Mark Twain



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